Improvement in ice implements



n. N. B. OIO-PPIN. Ice-Implement.

. No. 26.310. Patent dJune10,l879.

DAVID N. B. GOFFIN, OF NEWTON CENTRE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE IMPLSEMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,310, dated June 10,1879; application filed November 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID N. B. CoFFIN, of Newton Centre, in the countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ice Implements, of which the following is a fulland exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a side view or projection, illustrating a pair of ice hooksor tongs open as in grasping a cake of ice, one of the hooks beingconstructed with a hook, a hatchet, and a chisel or scraper, all in one,the other with a hook and pick in one piece, and a handle and hinge forlifting the ice, this handle serving also as a small hammer for breakingsmall pieces of ice in the hand. Fig. 2 represents the same closed aswhen the several other tools than the hooks are used. Fig. 3 is an edgeview of the handle end of the'implement. Fig. 4 is a sectional view ofthe same.

The nature of the invention relates to the combination, in the mannerdescribed, of the several tools, and their construction, in one compact,convenient, useful, and economical implement, as herein described.

The hooks a and b are hinged together by riveting (or a screw and nut ornuts, if preferred) at t. A handle, 0, is hinged also at the same pointto the two books. Stops g g 9 come into action on closing theinstrument, and give it solidity when used as a hatchet, a pick, achisel, &c.

In Fig.2, where the instrument is closed, the curved parts of the hookscarry the hatchet f, and form part of its head and the necessary weight;same also of the pick (1 and chisel e.

The upper or enlarged part of the hooks, near and at the hinge at t,serves, when the instrument is closed, as a suitable handle for hatchet,pick, and chisel, and the part c, which may be used as a hammer, tobreak small pieces of ice. Part 0 is also the suspendinghandle for thehooks in handling ice.

. The whole may be made of iron or steel, or any suitable material; butthe most suitable and economical material is probably malleable iron, ofwhich the whole may be cast, so as to require no machine-work more thanto head up the ends of the starts at i, which, in such case, are cast onthesuspending-handle c.

I claim- 1. The arrangement of the hatchet f upon the curved hook, incombination with the stop or stops 9 and hinge at t, substantially asdescribed.

2. The arrangement of the pick d upon the curved hook, in combinationwith the stopor stops 9 and hinge at t, substantially as described.

3. The arrangement of'the chisel eupon the hook, in combination with thestop or stops 9 and hinge at 73, substantially as described.

4:. The arrangement and combination of the hatchet f, the pick d, andthe chisel 6 upon and in combination with the curved hooks,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

5. The suspension-piece 0, arranged between the hinged ends of thehooks, with starts cast on or riveted through with either rivetheads orscrew-nuts, substantially as described.

6. The completeim plement, when constructed with the two hooks, carryingon the hook ends ,the hatchet f, chisel 0, pick d, and having the stopor stops 9 and handle a, hinged to the end opposite the hookends, andbetween the enlarged handle parts of the hooks, the whole beingconstructed, arranged, and combined substantially as described.

D. N. B. GOFFIN. Witnesses:

JAMES A. BUTLER, LYSANDER BURNETT.

